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SEAD’s Goals• Provide data services that address the needs of researchers working toward sustainability• Integrate these services into an generalizable “Active and Social Curation” infrastructure suited to the social structure and economics of long-tail research communities• Develop capabilities to package and migrate the most valuable datasets to a federated repository infrastructure for long-term preservation• Education, outreach, & training to disseminate SEAD‟s contributions to other projects & communities

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SEAD’s Strategy• Leverage social media for discovery of data, interest, and expertise• Move data curation upstream in the data life cycle• Involve domain scientists in setting priorities for evolution of data and services• Take advantage of existing infrastructures (Institutional Repositories, ICPSR) for long- term preservation

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Active and Social Curation• Engage researchers during projects, not at the end• Automatically capture metadata as defined by the data producers• Provide facilities for commentary, recommendations, and mark-up of data• Further reduce costs by re-engineering curation processes to leverage this rich metadata and volunteered effort

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SEAD Cyberinfrastructure• An international resource for sustainability science• Novel technical and business approaches to supporting the long-tail of research data• Lifecycle support: actionable data services integrated with curation and preservation infrastructure

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Key Challenges for SEADCyberinfrastructure • Managed Data storage and services are expensive! • Begging for metadata doesn‟t work! • Curation and preservation are time consuming! • The long-tail is not standardized! • Data collections are always missing something valuable! • Data models evolve! • Cyberinfrastructure is obsolete by the time you build it! • Building Community as you leverge cyberinfrastructure

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KEY SEAD Questions• What could SEAD capture when?• How can SEAD provide direct value to data producers, users, and curators?• How can robust web-services and social computing lower barriers and reduce/realign costs?

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SEAD CI QuickView• SEAD will quickly build a repository and data services infrastructure for sustainability research that can be responsively adapted based on community feedback – Community Agile Development• SEAD will leverage existing tools and emerging practices to dramatically enhance the interactions of researchers and data librarians – Active Curation• SEAD‟s focus on the long-tail will force an emphasis on ease-of-use and low costs that is critical for long-term sustainability – Leverage Existing Institution Resources for Long-term Access• SEAD will leverage experiences in the sustainability research community to provide guidance for other long-tail communities making the transition to an interdisciplinary, systems-oriented approach to research – Sustainability and Resource Growth Partnership and Collaboration

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AcknowledgmentsSEAD is funded by the National ScienceFoundation under cooperative agreement#OCI0940824• For more on SEAD go to:• http://sead-data.net• Follow us on Twitter @SEADdatanet http://sead-data.net